Damnagoras (4,567 views)

[kuyashii]

Davide Moras a.k.a Damnagoras/Damna/Dave
Associated Acts: Elvenking (1998-2002, 2004-currently), Leprechaun (2003-unknown), Hell in the Club (2009-currently)
Vocal Range: E♭2-F5

High Notes

F5 ("Apettite", "Dominhate")
E5 ("At the Court of the Wild Hunt", "A Crowded Room", "Straight Outta Hell")
D5 ("Apettite", "Battleplan", "Bite of the Tongue", "Black Roses for the Wicked One", "A Crowded Room", "Devil on My Shoulder", "Draugen's Maelstrom", "The Druid Ritual of Oak", "Elvenlegions", "Enjoy the Ride", "Grandier's Funeral Pyre", "Hell Sweet Hell", "The Horned Ghost and the Sorcerer", "Houston We've Got no Money", "I Wanna Swing Like Peter Parker", "Invoking the Woodland Spirit", "Knockgrafton", "Little Toy Soldier", "Moonbeam Stone Circle", "Pagan Revolution", "Possession", "Proud", "The Regality Dance", "Seasonspeech", "Showtime", "Summon the Dawn Light", "Toxic Love", "Twilight of Magic", "The Voynich Manuscript", "We Are on Fire", "We Are the Ones", "Witches Gather", "Whore Paint")
C♯5 ("Battleplan", "The Cabal", "Conjuring of the 14th", "Dance!", "Daydream Boulevard", "Enjoy the Ride", "Elvenlegions", "Jigsaw Puzzle" 2010 Version, "King of the Elves", "Night", "Oakenshield", "On the Road", "Pagan Revolution", "Penny Dreadful", "Petalstorm", "Rock Down this Place", "Star", "Under the Tree of Us'dum")
C5 ("Apettite", "At the Court of the Wild Hunt", "Bare Hands", "Bite of the Tongue", "Black Roses for the Wicked One", "Conjuring of the 14th", "Chronicle of a Frozen Era", "Dance!", "Devil on My Shoulder", "The Divided Heart", "Divination", "Dominhate", "The Druid Ritual of Oak", "The Dweller of the Rhymes", "Forget-Me-Not", "A Grain of Truth", "Grey Inside", "The Horned Ghost and the Sorcerer", "Houston We've Got no Money", "I Am the Monster", "Invoking the Woodland Spirit", "In Your Eyes", "I Wanna Swing Like Peter Parker", "King of the Elves", "The Last Hour", "Little Toy Soldier", "The Loser", "March of Fools", "A Melody, A Memory", "Money Changes Everything", "Miss Conception", "Muse", "Night", "Naked", "Never Too Late", "Never Turn My Back", "On the Road", "Pagan Purity", "The Phantom Punch", "The Play of the Leaves", "Pole Dancer", "Poor Little Baroness", "Possession", "Proud", "The Regality Dance", "A Riddle of Stars", "Romance and Wrath", "Save Me", "Seasonspeech", "Shadow of the Monster", "Showtime", "Snowman Six", "Straight Inside Your Winter", "Straight Outta Hell", "Summon the Dawn Light", "Swallowtail", "Those Days", "Three Ways to Magick", "Through Wolf's Eyes", "Towards the Shore", "Toxic Love", "Trows Kind", "Vodka 'n' Roll", "The Voynich Manuscript", "Walking Dead", "We, Animals", "We Are on Fire", "We Are the Ones", "Withered in Venice", "White Willow", "Whore Paint", "Witches Gather", "The Wolves Will Be Howling Your Name", "Your Heroes are Dead")
B4 ("Another Saturday Night", "Banquet of Bards", "Battleplan", "Beginning of the End, Pt. 1", "Black Roses for the Wicked One", "The Comet", "A Crowded Room", "David Gnomo Amico Mio", "Dawnmelting", "Devil on My Shoulder", "The Divided Heart", "Draugen's Maelstrom", "Elvenlegions", "Evil has Gone", "Forbidden Fruit", "Grandier's Funeral Pyre", "Heaven is a Place on Earth", "Hobs An' Feathers", "Invoking the Woodland Spirit", "King of the Elves", "Jigsaw Puzzle" 2010 Version, "The Life and Death of Mr. Nobody", "Lost in America" Live on Peruggia 2011, "A Melody, A Memory", "Midnight Skies, Winter Sighs", "The Misfit", "Moonbeam Stone Circle", "Muse", "Natural Born Rockers", "Neverending Night", "Pagan Purity", "Pagan Revolution", "Penny Dreadful", "The Play of the Leaves", "Poison Tears", "Raise Your Drinking Glass", "Rats are Following", "Same Ol' Situation" Live on Peruggia 2011, "Seasonspeech", "Silverseal", "The Solitaire", "Straight Inside Your Winter", "Straight Outta Hell", "Summon the Dawn Light", "Twilight of Magic", "Under the Tree of Us'dum", "The Voynich Manuscript", "The Wanderer", "We Are the Ones", "What's Left of Me")
B♭4 ("Another Saturday Night", "Beware the Candyman", "The Cabal", "Chronicle of a Frozen Era", "The City is Burning", "C'mon and Love Me" Live on Peruggia 2011", "Conjuring of the 14th", "Daydream Boulevard", "Death and the Suffering", "The Divided Heart", "Divination", "Dominhate", "Don't Throw In the Towel", "A Dreadful Strain", "The Druid Ritual of Oak", "The Element's Weaving", "Forbidden Fruit", "A Grain of Truth", "Grey Inside", "Horns Ablaze", "Infection", "In Your Eyes", "Knockgrafton", "The Last Hour", "Little Toy Soldier", "Lit Up" Live on Peruggia 2011, "Lost Hill of Memories", "Midnight Skies, Winter Sighs", "My Own Spider's Web", "Naked", "Never Turn My Back", "No Appreciation", "No More Goodbyes", "Oakenshield", "The One We Shall Follow", "On the Road", "Poison Tears", "Poor Little Baroness", "A Riddle of Stars", "Rock Down this Place", "Runereader", "Same Ol' Situation" Live on Peruggia 2011, "The Scythe", "Shadow of the Monster", "Since You're not Here", "Silence de Mort", "Snowman Six", "Star", "Straight Inside Your Winter", "This Nightmare Will Never End", "Towards the Shore", "Toxic Love", "Trows Kind", "Try Me, Hate Me", "The Ultimate Dance", "Walking Dead", "We, Animals", "We Are on Fire", "Witches Gather", "The Wolves Will Be Howling Your Name")
A4 ("Another Awful Hobs Tale", "Ask a Silly Question", "Beginning of the End, Pt. 1", "The Blackest of My Hearts", "Chronicle of a Frozen Era", "The Comet", "Dance!", "David Gnomo Amico Mio", "Death and the Suffering", "Devil's Carriage", "Divination", "Disillusion's Reel", "Dominhate", "A Dreadful Strain", "The Druid Ritual of Oak", "The Dweller of the Rhymes", "From Blood to Stone", "Heaven is a Place on Earth", "Hobs An' Feathers", "The Last Hour", "Le Cirque des Horreurs", "Little Toy Soldier", "The Loser", "Lost in America" Live on Peruggia 2011, "Lost in the Forest", "March of Fools", "A Melody, A Memory", "Midnight Skies, Winter Sighs", "The Misfit", "Miss Conception", "Money Changes Everything", "Muse", "My Own Spider's Web", "Neverending Nights", "Never Turn My Back", "Not My Final Song", "Oakenshield", "On the Morning Dew", "Pagan Purity", "Pagan Revolution", "Petalstorm", "Penny Dreadful", "Rats are Following", "Raise Your Drinking Glass", "The Regality Dance", "Romance and Wrath", "Rook Black Crow", "Rouse Your Dream", "Runereader", "Rusalka", "Save Me", "Showtime", "Sic Semper Tyrannis", "Sign of the Unicorns", "Silence de Mort", "Silverseal", "Skywards", "Swallowtail", "The Time of Your Life", "Those Days", "Three Ways to Magick", "Through Wolf's Eyes", "Twilight of Magic", "The Violin and The Nightingale", "Walking Dead", "The Wanderer" The Winter Wake and Two Tragedy Poets... Versions, "We, Animals", "We Are the Ones", "Whore Paint", "The Wolves Will Be Howling Your Name")

Low Notes

D3 ("Apettite", "Ask a Silly Question", "Draugen's Maelstrom", "The Druid Ritual of Oak", "Forget-Me-Not", "I Am the Monster", "Hell Sweet Hell", "The Horned Ghost and the Sorcerer", "I Wanna Swing Like Peter Parker", "Le Cirque des Horreurs", "My Own Spider's Web", "Never Too Late", "Night", "On the Morning Dew", "The Open Breach", "Poison Tears", "Save Me", "Silence de Mort", "Straight Inside Your Winter", "This Nightmare Will Never End", "Towards the Shore", "We Animals", "Walking Dead", "The Wanderer (Acoustic Version)", "Witches Gather", "Your Heroes are Dead")
C♯3 ("The Cabal", "Disillusion's Reel", "The Last Hour", "Oakenshield", "Petalstorm", "No Appreciation")
C3 ("Beware the Candyman", "The Divided Heart", "Eyes of the Past", "A Grain of Truth", "Hell Sweet Hell", "Money Changes Everything", "My Little Moon", "Night", "Possession", "Proud", "The Time of Your Life", "The Violin and The Nightingale", "Walking Dead", "We, Animals", "We Are the Ones")
B2 ("Diamonds in the Night", "Disillusion's Reel", "Natural Born Rockers", "Silverseal", "The Solitaire", "Straight Inside Your Winter")
B♭2 ("Diamonds in the Night", "The Divided Heart", "King of the Elves", "The Life and Death of Mr. Nobody", "Moonbeam Stone Circle", "Naked", "Shadow of the Monster", "Star", "Try Me, Hate Me", "The Violin and The Nightingale", "Withered in Venice")
A2 ("Diamonds in the Night", "Ask a Silly Question", "Devil on My Shoulder", "Devil's Carriage", "From Blood to Stone", "Muse", "Rouse Your Dream", "She Lives at Dawn", "Sic Semper Tyrannis", "Silence de Mort", "Silverseal", "A Song for the People", "Straight Inside Your Winter", "Swallowtail", "Towards the Shore", "Twilight of Magic", "We Are on Fire", "We Are the Ones", "The Wolves Will Be Howling Your Name")
G2 ("Apettite", "Bite of the Tongue", "A Crowded Room", "The Life and Death of Mr. Nobody", "Sic Semper Tyrannis", "The Time of Your Life", "Toxic Love", "The Ultimate Dance", "The Violin and the Nightingale", "Withered in Venice")
F♯2 ("Don't Throw In the Towel", "Romance and Wrath")
F2 ("Shadow of the Monster", "Toxic Love", "We, Animals")
E♭2 ("Straight Inside Your Winter")

Blue marks clear falsetto notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities (all examples hyperlinked).

SPOILER: Click to show

{Discography and Range Displayed by Album}
Elvenking – To Oak Woods Bestowed (demo) (2000) C♯3-C5
Elvenking – Heathenreel (2002) C♯3-D5
Leprechaun – The Ultimate Dance (2006) G2-D5
Elvenking – The Winter Wake (2006) A2-C♯5
Elvenking – The Scythe (2007) F♯2-F5
Elvenking – Two Tragedy Poets... And a Caravan of Weird Figures (2008) A2-B4
Elvenking – Red Silent Tides (2010) A2-D5
Hell in the Club – Let the Games Begin (2011) F♯2-E♭5
Elvenking – Era (2012) F2-C5
Elvenking – The Pagan Manifesto (2014) A2-D5
Hell in the Club – Devil on My Shoulder (2015) F2-D5
Hell in the Club – Shadow of the Monster (2016) G♯2-F5
Hell in the Club – See You on the Dark Side (2017) G2-D5
Elvenking – Secrets of the Magick Grimoire (2017) E♭2-E5

Guest Appearances:
Derdian – "Lost in the Forest", "Sign of the Unicorn" (Horns of Silence, 2007)
Trick or Treat – "Davide Gnomo Amico Mio" (Single, 2010)
Silver Tears – "Beginning of the End, Pt. 1", "Evil has Gone" (Rebirth, 2011)
Mägo de Oz – "Vodka 'n' Roll" (Celtic Land, 2014)
Derdian – "Battleplan" (Revolution Era, 2016)
Fake Idols – "The City is Burning" (Witness, 2016)
Helsótt – "Eyes of the Past" (Slaves and Gods, 2018)

Davide Moras (who goes by Damnagoras/Damna on Elvenking and Dave on Hell in the Club) is an italian vocalist (who also sang for a now-disbanded group called Leprechaun). A somewhat polarizing vocalist, Damna has gone through lots of stylistic changes both intentional and unintentional, particularly linked to Elvenking's ever-changing visual and musical aesthetics.

Damna started out as a very bright, somewhat boyish tenor, as heard on Elvenking's first demo and debut album. During this time, his high note control wouldn't be the best yet, as he often struggled to hit the pitches and there it was a bit of a "yodel" quality to his voice. After leaving Elvenking due to vocal problems, he would formed the band Leprechaun which released the demo The Ultimate Dance on 2004. From then on, his voice would adopt an "edgier" but still agile alternative rock-ish timbre that would be heard on subsequent Elvenking albums (since he rejoined the band in 2004) until 2010 Red Silent Tides and on his hard rock side project Hell in the Club first album released on 2011.

His guest appearance on Silver Tears' songs "Evil has Gone" and "Beginning of the End, Pt I" later that year would mark another change in timbre for him: he adopted a noticeably rougher rasp to his voice which he audibly had trouble controling, as best heard on the 2012 Elvenking album Era. Post-The Pagan Manifesto (an Elvenking album released in 2014) Damnagoras would be singing much more demanding vocal lines and rangier performances, and while his vocal control demonstrated some improving (despite noticeable use of pitch-correction technology at times and dodgy live performances), tonally his voice has been suffering an audible decay with a pronounced strain and nasal quality.

Despite facing lots of criticism towards his vocal style being "misplaced" on a Folk Metal band like Elvenking, I personally consider him a very unique vocalist who has created some very interesting pieces of vocal work.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Vocal Range Video}

If you have any questions concerning the whereabouts of a note or has notes I happened to miss, feel free to say anything!